Originally posted by Yaz:
Originally posted by HS Strut:
[b] Based on my beliefs that if I own it, I should be able to use it the way I want to... to make money such as leasing it to hunters, farming it, raising animals on it... it should not be illegal. And since nobody wants to step out and say how big the enclosure has to be before it becomes ethical to hunt it, I guess we have some more work to do?
Or if you were a legitimate cattle farmer, would you want one of these places right next door to you when they have a TB outbreak, and it affects YOUR business? Or your hunting ground is right next door, and one of their CWD infected deer get out and your hunting area has to be depopulated? Remember, these guys historically have not been made held accountable for their screw ups…….YOU foot the bill.
My point is, I can agree with you to a certain point. But, when it affects others negatively, (which these places eventually will), that's where the line needs to be drawn on what a guy can do with his own property.
Maybe one thing people may not realize. If CWD is found in a facility, it SHOULD always be considered "contaminated". This is a prion, and no known way to get rid of it. It stays in the soils, and they have now found that it can be taken up by plants and ingested. Which means, if a CWD infected animal is brought in and turned loose on a property, then there is a chance that the others could be infected. So, just getting rid of the carrier animal, does nothing! Also, anything hauled in the trailer it was brought in with in the middle of the night, could stand the same chance. [/b]No Yaz, I wouldn't be happy about any of the above scenarios. I agree that we need some laws to protect us from our neighbors doing us harm.
I'm just sick of government telling us what we Can and Can't do. A fella moving in next door and hurting your property value is sometimes just a fact of life. A landfill? That would suck. I just hate where this country is heading.
My neighbors german shepherd practically ate my wifes lap dog. After surgery and some painful medical bills, Our dog lived. Neighbor came over to apologize. I told him "It's OK. Doo Doo Happens. But if it happens again, I'll put a 1oz slug through your shepherd, gut it, hang it out back for your kids to see and then sell it to the chinese restaurant in town."
His dog has been to obedience training, a dog whisperer AND best I can tell is now an inside dog. No new law or government intervention needed.
It's funny because my neighbor is the one who convinced me that I'm really(like him) a libertarian. I think the only laws we should have are laws against people doing harm to one another. NO laws to aid businesses. No IRS. No Bailouts. Free country. Free to prosper. Free to fail.
As far as this canned hunting thing goes? I say we caused this ourselves with our obsession with antlers. I myself can shoulder some of the blame, although I've never leased or been obsessed with big bucks. Can we blame a guy for wanting to cash in? It may ruin hunting as we know it. But lots of thing threaten it every day.
Sounds to me like we are going to have to "Regulate" these idiots. I hate it. But it's where we're heading.
